【原】《头号玩家》纽约时报外刊双语笔记

《头号玩家》纽约时报外刊双语笔记

 

 

 

最近《头号玩家》可谓是大火，今天和小伙伴一起去看了，即使我们俩女生从不打游戏，也是看了直呼过瘾，虽然其中涉及到《闪灵》，真是又生生的让我回想起大学时英语电影鉴赏课的可怕回忆，当时都快把坐在旁边的同学的胳膊抓肿了。。。。但是依旧不妨碍电影本身的高水准。高斋翻译CATTI和MTI

 

 

 

Anyway,《头号玩家》到底讲述了什么，我们又可以学到什么，就跟小编一起读下纽约时报的这篇影评，边看边学表达吧～

 

读完这篇影评分析，你的 Take   Home  Message：了解《头号玩家》的相关背景，积累电影词汇的表达，头韵的使用以及一些日常可以使用的词汇与短语，文中小编也会推荐积累同义词表达的网站哦（彩蛋）～

 

本篇英文原文来源：纽约时报，译文取自官方译文，英语解释来自柯林斯。

 

本篇编辑分析：行云

 

 

 

Review: Spielberg’s ‘Ready Player One’ Plays the Nostalgia Game

《头号玩家》：斯皮尔伯格的怀旧游戏

 

nostalgia: [nə'stældʒə] an affectionate feeling you have for the past, especially for a particular happy tie (尤指对幸福时光的) 怀旧，思乡

 

关于片名为什么叫Ready Player One, 是因为当玩家登陆进入虚拟世界Oasis前的最后一行字便是这三个词。

 

It isn’t going too far out on a limb to predict that “Ready Player One” will turn out to be one of Steven Spielberg’s more controversial projects. Even before its release, this adaptation of Ernest Cline’s 2011 best seller — what one writer called a “nerdgasm” of a novel — was subjected to an unusual degree of internet pre-hate. That was only to be expected. Mr. Spielberg has tackled contentious topics before — terrorism, slavery, the Pentagon Papers, sharks — but nothing as likely to stir up a hornet’s nest of defensiveness, disdain and indignant “actually”-ing as the subject of this movie, which is video games.

 

如果预测《头号玩家》(Ready Player One)会是史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格(Steven Spielberg)比较有争议的作品之一，不会有很多人反对。这部电影改编自欧内斯特·克莱恩(Ernest Cline)2011年出版的畅销小说（一位作家称之为“死宅高潮”），早在发行前就在网上遭到极大厌恶。这完全正常。斯皮尔伯格以前处理过有争议的话题——恐怖主义、奴隶制、五角大楼文件、鲨鱼——但没有哪个像这部电影的主题——电子游戏——一样，可能会惹来防范心态、蔑视和愤愤不平的“事实上根本不是这样”的麻烦。

 

limb: 平常我们熟知的都是limb做arms and legs四肢的意思。但当limb组成短语 someone goes out on a limb意思为：they do something they strongly believe in even though it is risky or extreme, and is likely to fail or be criticized by other people. （因大胆冒险而）处于困境。

 

nerdgasm：合成词nerd+orgasm 死宅＋高潮

 

nerd：someone who are unpopular or boring, especially because they wear unfashionable clothes or show too much interest in computers or sciences. 无聊的人；（对电脑或科技太过着迷的）书呆子。在影片中翻为死宅非常贴切。

 

contentious: [kənˈtenʃəs] an issue that causes a lot of disagreement or arguments引起争议的。可以积累下来和controversial互换。

 

a hornet's nest:马蜂窝（注意是实体的马蜂窝，不是旅游网站的那个），hornet大黄蜂，stir up a hornet's nest 捅马蜂窝，惹麻烦。

 

disdain: dislike someone or something because you think that they are inferior or unimportant 轻蔑

 

同时也要注意到这一段的第二句和第四句均为长句，中间都用连字符当做插入语。在翻译时可以按照原文也将其作为插入语用连字符连接起来，也可以将插入的部分单独成句。

 

电影相关词汇：release上映，adaptation改编

 

And not only video games. “Ready Player One,” written by Mr. Cline and Zak Penn, dives into the magma of fan zeal, male self-pity and techno-mythology in which those once-innocent pastimes are now embedded. Mr. Spielberg, a digital enthusiast and an old-school cineaste, goes further than most filmmakers in exploring the aesthetic possibilities of a form that is frequently dismissed and misunderstood.

 

不仅仅是电子游戏。克莱恩和扎克·佩恩(Zak Penn)联合编剧的《头号玩家》探究了粉丝的热情、男性的自怜，以及曾是无足轻重的消遣、现在却已根深蒂固的科技神话。斯皮尔伯格是数字爱好者，也是老派电影人。对于一种经常遭到无视与误解的形式，他却探讨它的审美可能性，在这方面，他比大部分电影人都走得更远。

 

dive into: 本身为潜水的意思，引申为投入，钻研

 

magma: ['mæɡmə] the molten rock that is formed in very hot condition inside the earth 岩浆

 

technomythtology:合成词technology科技＋mythology神话，科技神话

 

pastime: something that you do in your spare time because you enjoy it or are interested in it.消遣

 

cineaste:  ['sɪnɪ,æst] an enthusiast for films 电影爱好者

 

老派的old school

 

这一段注意同位语的使用，第二句“written by Mr. Cline and Zak Penn,”是“Ready Player One” 的同位语。第三句“a digital enthusiast and an old-school cineaste”是“Mr. Spielberg”的同位语。

 

Aided by his usual cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski, and by the production designer Adam Stockhausen, he turns a vast virtual landscape of battling avatars into a bustling pop-cultural theme park, an interactive museum of late-20th- and early-21st-century entertainment, a maze of niche tastes, cultish preoccupations and blockbuster callbacks. Mr. Spielberg navigates this warehouse with his usual dexterity, loading every frame with information without losing the clarity and momentum of the story.

 

在御用摄影师雅努什·卡明斯基(Janusz Kaminski)和美术总监亚当·斯托克豪森(Adam Stockhausen)的协助下，他把宏大的虚拟化身打斗场景变成了一个熙熙攘攘的流行文化主题公园；一座展示20世纪末与21世纪初的娱乐的互动博物馆；乃至一个由小众化品味、粉丝的狂热迷恋和对大片的回忆组成的迷宫。斯皮尔伯格用他惯用的娴熟技巧驾驭着这座仓库，赋予每一帧画面以信息，又不破坏故事清晰的条理和势头。

 

cinematographer: 合成词，cinema电影＋photographer摄影师，电影摄影师

 

avatar: ['ævətɑr] 很多喜欢看电影的朋友看到这个词肯定会说这不就是阿凡达嘛，电影阿凡达的中文译名是采用音译，avatar的本意为the manifestation of a deity, notably Vishnu, in human, superman, or animal form 天神（以人类／超人类或动物身的形式）显灵 。

 

在游戏中choose your avatar，类似于角色扮演的意思。

 

bustle: someone move in a hurried way, because they are very busy 奔忙。经常可以看到一个短语 hustle and bustle熙熙攘攘，忙碌

 

niche: [niʃ] 这个词通常在商业中见的特别多，niche market 利基市场 a specific area of marketing which has its own particular requirements, customers, and products. (有特定的要求，顾客群和产品的)专营市场。在生态领域，ecologic niche 生态位。单独的niche也有壁龛的意思。在此文中niche指 a specific taste,比较小众化的口味。

 

cultish: intended to appeal to a small group of fashionable people 对少数时尚人士有吸引力的

 

blockbuster: a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting 大片，畅销书

 

dexterity: [dɛk'stɛrəti] skill in using your hands, or sometimes your mind 灵巧，娴熟

 

电影相关词汇：大片blockbuster

 

Nonetheless, the toy guns of social media and pop-up kulturkritik are locked and loaded. Mr. Spielberg will be accused of taking games and their players too seriously and not seriously enough, of pandering and mocking, of just not getting it and not being able to see beyond it — “it” being the voracious protoplasm that has, over the past three or four decades, swallowed up most of our cultural discourse. Whatever you call it — the revenge of the nerds, the franchising of the universe, the collapse of civilization — it’s a force that is at once emancipatory and authoritarian, innocent and pathological, delightful and corrosive.

 

尽管如此，社交媒体的玩具枪和快闪式的文化批判已经锁定目标。斯皮尔伯格会被指责太重视游戏和游戏玩家，也会被指责为不重视游戏和游戏玩家；会被指责为迎合，也会被指责为嘲笑；会被指责为不懂“它”，也会被指责为无力超越“它”——这里的“它”指的是过去三、四十年里吞噬了我们大部分文化话语的那种贪婪的物质。无论怎么称呼它——死宅的复仇、宇宙系列大片、文明的崩溃——它是一股既解放又专制，既无害又病态，既令人愉悦又具有腐蚀性的力量。

 

pop-up: 特别形象，比如我们玩电脑时出现的弹窗就是pop-up

 

kulturkritik: culture critique 文化批判

 

locked and loaded: 填弹完毕锁定目标，此文中用了很多头韵，下文中也会出现很多，在中翻英或者写作总合适的运用头韵也是加分项哦～

 

pander: ['pændɚ] if you pander to someone or to their wishes, you do everything that they want, often to get some advantage for yourself迎合

 

pander to 同义替换cater for 都是指迎合的意思

 

voracious: [və'reʃəs] someone want a lot of something 贪婪的

 

protoplasm: ['protəplæzəm] the living contents of a cell, differentiated into cytoplasm and nucleoplasm 原生质的

 

emancipatory: [ɪ'mænsəpə,tɔri]adj., 解放的。它的名词形式 emancipation :free from unpleasant or unfair social, political, or legal restrictions.

 

pathological: ['pæθə'lɑdʒɪkl] behave in an extreme and unacceptable way, and have very powerful feelings that they cannot control. 病态的

 

 

 

Mr. Spielberg and some of his friends helped to create this monster, which grants him a measure of credibility and also opens him up to a degree of suspicion. He is the only person who could have made this movie and the last person who should have been allowed near the material.

 

斯皮尔伯格和他的一些朋友参与创造了这个怪物。这让他获得了一定的称道，也让他遭受了一定程度的怀疑。他是唯一一个有可能拍出这部电影的人，也是原本最不应该被允许获得这一素材的人。

 

grant: allow sb. to have sth. 准予，给予

 

第一句which引导了非限制性定语从句。which前整个的句子为后面grant的主语。

 

That material has issues of its own. Mr. Cline’s book — readable and amusing without being exactly good — is a hodgepodge of cleverness and cliché. Less than a decade after publication, it already feels a bit dated, partly because its dystopian vision seems unduly optimistic and partly because its vision of male geek rebellion has turned stale and sour.

 

这一素材有自己的问题。克莱恩的书可读性强、有趣味、但又确实不算出色，它是小聪明和陈词滥调的大杂烩。出版不到十年，它已经感觉有点过时了，部分是因为它的反乌托邦愿景似乎过于乐观，部分是因为它的男性极客反叛愿景已经变得老套和乏味。

 

hodgepodge: 同 hotch-potch，a mixture of all sorts of different things. 杂乱无章的一堆东西

 

cleverness and cliche:  再次使用头韵

 

dated: old-fashioned 过时的，

 

彩蛋：为大家推荐一个非常好用的同义词网站：thesaurus, 直接搜www. thesaurus.com 打开就可以用啦，保证爱不释手～

 

 

 

 

 

 

手机网页版打开就可以看到底下dated的同义词有很多了，平时查词时可以顺便积累很多。

 

dystopian: [dis'təupiən] an imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can be 反乌托邦

 

male geek rebellion:男性极客反叛

 

stale and sour: 又一个头韵的使用

 

stale：boring because it is always the same老套，缺乏新鲜感

 

sour: 除了平常熟知的酸的意思，sour也可指乏味，令人失望的，sth. stops being enjoyable or satisfactory.

 

In the film, set in 2045, Wade Watts (a young man played by the agreeably bland, blandly agreeable Tye Sheridan) lives in “the stacks,” a vertical pile of trailers where the poorer residents of Columbus, Ohio (Oklahoma City in the book), cling to hope, dignity and their VR gloves. Humanity has been ravaged by the usual political and ecological disasters (among them “bandwidth riots” referred to in Wade’s introductory voice-over), and most people seek refuge in a digital paradise called the Oasis.

 

电影背景设定在2045年。韦德·瓦茨（Wade Watts，一个年轻男子，由乏味得令人感到亲切，又亲切得令人感到乏味的泰伊·谢里丹[Tye Sheridan]扮演）住在“叠楼”，即垂直的一堆拖车里。在那里，俄亥俄州哥伦布市（原著中是俄克拉荷马市）较为贫穷的居民紧紧抓住希望、尊严和VR手套不放。人性被常见的政治和生态灾难（包括韦德在开篇的旁白中提到的“带宽暴动”）摧残，大部分人都在一个叫“绿洲”(Oasis)的数字天堂里寻求慰藉。

 

agreeably bland, blandly agreeable: 乏味得令人感到亲切，又亲切得令人感到乏味，这个可以说是描述的非常贴切了

 

the stacks: a pile of sth,在影片中指a vertical pile of trailers 叠楼区

 

Oasis: [o'esɪs] a small area in a desert where water and plants are found 绿洲，影片中指的是a digital paradise. Oasis 其实是the Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation的缩写。

 

 

 

That world — less a game than a Jorge Luis Borges cosmos populated by wizards, robots and racecar drivers — is the creation of James Halliday (Mark Rylance). After Halliday’s death, his avatar revealed the existence of a series of Easter eggs, or secret digital treasures, the discovery of which would win a lucky player control of the Oasis. Wade is a “gunter” — short for “egg hunter” — determined to pursue this quest even after most of the other gamers have tired of it. Among his rivals are a few fellow believers and Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn), the head of a company called IOI that wants to bring Halliday’s paradise under corporate control.

 

那个世界与其说是一款游戏，不如说是一个生活着巫师、机器人和赛车手的豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯(Jorge Luis Borges)式宇宙，它是由詹姆斯·哈利迪（James Halliday，马克·里朗斯[Mark Rylance]饰）创造的。哈利迪去世后，他的化身透露，游戏中存在一系列“复活节彩蛋”，或者说秘密数字宝藏，发现它们的幸运玩家将赢得对绿洲的控制权。韦德是寻找彩蛋的人，简称“寻蛋人”之一。即使其他大部分玩家都已经厌倦了，他依然决心继续寻找。他的竞争对手包括几个同样坚信不疑的人，此外还有诺兰·索伦托（Nolan Sorrento，本·门德尔森[Ben Mendelsohn]饰），他是一家名为IOI的公司的负责人，该公司希望将哈利迪创造的天堂置于自己控制之下。

 

Easter eggs: a cooked egg with a decorated shell, or an egg made of chocolate, that is given as a present at Easter. In some countries, Easter eggs are hidden and children then look for them. 复活节彩蛋

 

gunter:合成词 egg+hunter寻蛋人

 

此段中仍然多次使用插入语，如第一句less a game than a Jorge Luis Borges cosmos populated by wizards, robots and racecar drivers 就插入在the world 和is中间来解释the world。

 

In the real world, IOI encourages Oasis fans to run up debts that it collects by forcing them into indentured servitude. Sorrento’s villainy sets up a battle on two fronts — clashes in the Oasis mirroring chases through the streets of Columbus — that inspires Mr. Spielberg to feats of crosscutting virtuosity. The action is so swift and engaging that some possibly literal-minded questions may be brushed aside. I, for one, didn’t quite understand why, given the global reach of the Oasis, all the relevant players were so conveniently clustered in Ohio. (If anyone wants to explain, please find me on Twitter so I can mute you.)

 

在现实世界中，IOI怂恿“绿洲”的粉丝们大笔举债，通过迫使他们接受奴役契约来搜集债务。索伦托的邪恶势力在两条战线上展开战斗——哥伦布市街头的追逐反映了绿洲里的冲突——这激发了斯皮尔伯格施展精湛的剪辑切换技艺。这场戏速度很快，扣人心弦，所以一些比较实际的问题可能被冲淡了。比如说，我不太明白，既然绿洲是全世界都在玩的游戏，那么，为什么所有重要的玩家都如此便捷地聚集在俄亥俄州（如果有人想解释，请去Twitter上找我，这样我就可以拉黑你了）。

 

indentured [in'dentʃəd]  servitude: 奴役契约服务 the service that someone was forced to work for others for a period of time, because of an agreement made by people in authority or to settle a debt.

 

villainy: very bad or criminal behaviour恶行，犯罪行为。villain, n., 恶棍，恶人

 

crosscut: cut across 横切，剪辑切换

 

virtuosity: [,vɝtʃu'ɑsəti] great skill （艺术家或运动员的）高超技巧

 

brush aside: refuse to consider an idea, remark, or feeling because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be. 对（主意，评论，感情）置之不理。这个词其实也蛮形象，brush 拿刷子刷到一边去了aside，也就是忽视不理。在此译文翻译为所依一些比较实际的问题可能被忽视了，要比被冲淡了更确切一些。

 

mute: lower the volume of a noise or sound or make it less distinct 降低（声音）

 

 

 

But, of course, Columbus and the Oasis do not represent actual or virtual realities, but rather two different modalities of fantasy. Wade’s avatar, Parzival, collects a posse of fighters: Sho, Daito, Aech and Art3mis, who is also his love interest. When the people attached to these identities meet up in Columbus, they are not exactly as they are in the game. Aech, large and male in the Oasis, is played by Lena Waithe. But the fluidity of online identity remains an underexploited possibility. In and out of the Oasis, Art3mis (also known as Samantha, and portrayed by Olivia Cooke) is a male fantasy of female badassery. Sho (Philip Zhao) and Daito (Win Morisaki) are relegated to sidekick duty. The multiplayer, self-inventing ethos of gaming might have offered a chance for a less conventional division of heroic labor, but the writers and filmmakers lacked the imagination to take advantage of it.

 

但是，当然，哥伦布和绿洲并不代表真实或虚拟现实，而是代表两种幻想的模式。韦德在游戏中的身份帕西法尔(Parzival)召集了一群战士：修(Sho)、大东(Daito)、艾奇(Aech)和阿尔忒密斯(Art3mis)。阿尔忒密斯是韦德的爱慕对象。当这些角色在现实世界中对应的人物在哥伦布相聚时，才发现他们跟游戏中的角色不太一样。艾奇由丽娜·维特(Lena Waithe)饰演，她在绿洲中是高大的男性，但该片仍未充分利用网络身份的灵活性。在绿洲内外，阿尔忒密斯（又名萨曼莎[Samantha]，由奥莉维娅·库克[Olivia Cooke]饰演）都是男性幻想中的酷女郎形象。修（赵家正[Philip Zhao]饰）和大东（森崎温[Win Morisaki]饰）被降级为帮手。多玩家参与和自我创造的游戏精神本可以提供一个机会，塑造不太传统的英雄分工，但编剧和制片人们缺乏充分利用它的想像力。

 

modality: the condition of being modal 模式

 

a posse of:  a group of people with the same job or purpose 一群，一对，一批

 

badassery: sth. that some people thought are very good or impressive  

 

relegate: ['rɛlɪɡet] make sth. or someone to a less important position使降级

 

sidekick: a person who accompanies and helps someone, and who you consider to be less intelligent or less important than the other person帮手

 

ethos: ['iθɑs] the set of ideas and attitudes that is associated with a particular group of people or a particular type of activity. 理念

 

 

 

The most fun part of “Ready Player One” is its exuberant and generous handing out of pop-cultural goodies. Tribute is paid to Mr. Spielberg’s departed colleagues John Hughes and Stanley Kubrick. The visual and musical allusions are eclectic enough that nobody is likely to feel left out, and everybody is likely to feel a little lost from time to time.

 

《头号玩家》中最有趣的部分在于它热情慷慨地分发流行文化中的好东西。片中向斯皮尔伯格去世的同行约翰·休斯(John Hughes)和斯坦利·库布里克(Stanley Kubrick)致敬。它广泛引用了大量视觉梗和音乐梗，没有人会觉得自己被忽略了，但每个人都很有可能会不时感到失落。

 

exuberant: [ɪg'z(j)uːb(ə)r(ə)nt］full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness 充满活力的

 

goody: sth. pleasant, exciting, or attractive 好东西，

 

goody还可以指好人heroes or the morally good characters in a film or story. 像我们平常说的老好人可以用goody-goody

 

allusion: an indirect reference to someone or something 暗指

 

Nostalgia? Sure, but what really animates the movie is a sense of history. The Easter egg hunt takes Parzival and his crew back into Halliday’s biography — his ill-starred partnership with Ogden Morrow (Simon Pegg), his thwarted attempts at romance — and also through the evolution of video games and related pursuits. The history is instructive and also sentimental in familiar ways, positing a struggle for control between idealistic, artistic entrepreneurs (and their legions of fans) and soulless corporate greed heads.

 

怀旧？当然，但真正让该片充满活力的是一种历史感。寻找“复活节彩蛋”的活动将帕西法尔和他的团队带回到哈利迪的传记中——他与奥格登·莫罗（Ogden Morrow，西蒙·佩吉[Simon Pegg]饰）的不幸合作关系，他在情场上的失败尝试——也让他们经历了电子游戏以及相关追求的演变。这段历史很有教益，也令人感伤，它讲述了一个常见的故事：具有艺术情怀的理想主义创业者（以及他们庞大的粉丝群体）与贪婪的、没有灵魂的企业老板对控制权的争夺。

 

ill-starred: unlucky or unsuccessful 运气不佳的

 

thwart: [θwɔrt] if you thwart someone or thwart their plans, you prevent them from doing or getting what they want 阻挠，挫败

 

posit: ['pɑzɪt] suggest or assume something as the basis for an argument or calculation 假定，假设

 

legion: ['liːdʒ(ə)n] a large group of soldiers who form one section of an army 军团。legion做形容词，意为众多的，大量的

 

greed heads: greed 贪婪的

 

Halliday is a sweet, shaggy nerd with a guileless Northern California drawl and a deeply awkward manner, especially around women. Sorrento is an autocratic bean counter, a would-be master of the universe who doesn’t even like video games. These characters are clichés, but they are also allegorical figures.

 

哈利迪是一个可爱的、不修边幅的死宅，带着北加州朴实的拖腔口音，举止笨拙，尤其是和女人打交道时。索伦托是一个独断专行、精打细算的人，自诩为宇宙未来的主人，他甚至不喜欢电子游戏。这些人物的特征都很老套，但同时也具有讽喻意义。

 

shaggy: messy （毛发等）又长又乱的，不修边幅的

 

guileless:['gaɪllɪs] someone behaves openly and truthfully and does not try to deceive people 诚实的

 

drawl: speak slowly and not very clearly, with long vowel sounds拉长声调说话

 

autocratic: someone has complete power and makes decisions without asking anyone else's advice 独裁的

 

bean counter: people you think are only interested in money (对金钱)善于算计的人

 

allegory: ['æləɡɔri] the use of characters and events in a story, poem, or painting to represent other things 讽喻

 

 

 

In the movie, they represent opposing principles, but in our world, they are pretty much the same guy. A lot of the starry-eyed do-it-yourselfers tinkering in their garages and giving life to their boyish dreams back in the ’70s and ’80s turned out to be harboring superman fantasies of global domination all along. They shared their wondrous creations and played the rest of us for suckers, collecting our admiration, our attention and our data as profit and feudal tribute.

 

在该片中，他们代表着对立的原则，但在我们的世界里，他们基本上是同一个人。许多在七、八十年代在车库里敲敲打打、幻想将一生奉献给儿时梦想的DIY人士最后都变成了怀着超人幻想的全球统治者。他们分享自己奇妙的创造物，哄骗我们其余这些人，收集我们的赞赏、关注和数据，作为利润和贡品。

 

starry-eyed: someone has such a positive or hopeful view of a situation that they do not see what it is really like 充满幻想的

 

A lot of the starry-eyed do-it-yourselfers tinkering in their garages and giving life to their boyish dreams back in the ’70s and ’80s turned out to be harboring superman fantasies of global domination all along. 这个句子整体主语很长，在翻译时可以适时切断，如将特别长的修饰主语的定语单独成句，在in the 70s and 80s那边断开，再将后面的补全为一个完整的句子。可以翻译为：很多70年代80年代的人在车库里敲敲打打，自己动手做，幻想将一生奉献给儿时的梦想。他们最后都变成了怀着超人幻想的全球统治者。

 

feudal tribute:  feudal 封建的 tribute: something given or done as an expression of esteem

 

 

 

Mr. Spielberg incarnates this duality as perfectly as any man alive. He is the peer of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, and a Gandalf for the elves and hobbits who made Google, Facebook and the other components of our present-day Oasis. He has been man-child and mogul, wide-eyed artist and cold-eyed businessman, praised for making so many wonderful things and blamed for ruining everything. His career has been a splendid enactment of the cultural contradictions of capitalism, and at the same time a series of deeply personal meditations on love, loss and imagination. All of that is also true of Halliday’s Oasis. “Ready Player One” is far from a masterpiece, but as the fanboys say, it’s canon.

 

斯皮尔伯格就是这种二元性的代表，和其他任何活着的人一样。他堪与史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Jobs)和比尔·盖茨(Bill Gates)并驾齐驱，就像甘道夫指引着精灵和霍比特人，他们也指引着那些创造了现实世界“绿洲”中的谷歌(Google)和Facebook等组件的那些人们。他既是长不大的孩子，也是影业巨子，既是天真的艺术家，也是冷漠的商人，既因为创造了这么多精彩的作品而受到赞扬，也常常被指责破坏了一切。他的职业生涯既是对资本主义文化冲突的精彩演绎，也是对爱情、失落和想象的一系列深刻的个人思考。哈利迪的绿洲也是如此。《头号玩家》远非杰作，但正如它的痴迷者所说的，它是经典。

 

incarnate: [ɪn'kɑrnət]  represent a quality in an extreme form 表现

 

peer: people who are the same age as you or who have the same status as you 同龄人，同等地位的人，这里译文将名词转化为动词翻译为与。。。并驾齐驱，也是常见的翻译手法

 

man-child   and mogul:再次注意头韵，这篇文章中头韵出现的次数很多，可以多多积累哦～

 

 

 

mogul: ['moɡl] an important, rich, and powerful businessman, especially one in the news, film, or  television industry

 

mogul 同时也可以跟tycoon, potentate, top brass等用作同义词（来源：thesaurus）

 

wide-eyed: someone who are inexperienced and innocent, and may be easily imprssed无经验的，天真的。

 

那次碰到天真的除了innocent记得也可以用wide-eyed

 

cold-eyed: 冷眼旁观

 

canon: ['kænən] a list of texts that are accepted as genuine or important 经典，正典

 

第三句的句型可以注意对仗的使用： he is praised for......and blamed for....

 

到这里，跟大家分享的这篇外刊分析就完结了，希望大家从中有所收获也欢迎和我们一起分享你的观点。电影很好看，这个假期要还没看的小伙伴们可以去看哦，再次推荐～